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Japan invades Manchuria to takee China's vast natural resources
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Beginiing of WWII where Germnay seeked to regain their lost territory and rule Poland
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Turning point of WWII when British air forces defeated German Air Forces
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Also known as the Berlin Pact, Germany, Italy, and Germany form the Axis Powers
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Principal means for providing US aid to foreign countires in WWII
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Brutal seige that lasted over 900 days and resulted in over 1 million civilian deaths. In the end, the Red Army were able to drive the Germans back.
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Germany's failed invasion of Soviet Union which is where many historians believed the tides turned in WWII
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Japanese attack on US naval base that led to the US entering WWII
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Conference in Berlin suburb where Nazi officals and German government officals came together to discuss the "Final Solutionof the Jewish Question" which was the annihliation of European Jews.
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One of the most decisive naval battles of WWII where the US defeated Japan
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Battle at Normandy that let the Allied troops begin their travels across Europe to defeat Htiler
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Conference in Crimea where Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill decided to shift focus to the Pacific.
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Last battles between the US and Japan where the last Japanese soldiers were captured or killed
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Hitler kills himself in his underground bunker by swalloing a cynaide capsule and shooting himself with a pistol
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Great Britain and the US celebrate their victory in Europe
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Last of the Big Three meetings during WWII
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First atomic bomb dropppings in history that led to the unconditional surrender of Japan
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Formal surrender ceremony by Japan that ended WWII. Held in Tokyo Bay abroad the USS Missouri.
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Improved version of League of Naatons after WWII whose goal is "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security."
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President Truman establishes that the US will provide assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
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Plan by US to aid Europe's economy. US gave 13 billion dollars to help rebuild Europe's economy
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Intergovernmental military aliiance between US, Canada, and Western Europe to provide collective security against USSR
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Mao was a communist Chinese revolutionary who formed the People's Rebuplic of China.
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First military action of the Cold War when North Korean soldiers crossed the 38th Parallel. War ended in a stalemate
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With Stalin's death, there was a huge hole in the Soviet Union leadership but his death paved the way to Krushchev rise to power
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Soviet Union and 7 other Eastern European countries sign a treaty that established a mutual defense organization in reaction to NATO
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Ended with the US forces withdrawing in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control in 1975
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First artifical Earth satellite launched into a low elliptical orbit by the Soviet Union
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Unsucessful US invasion of Cuba where the invaders surrendered in less than 24 hours
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Symbol of Cold War that represented the divide between democracy and communism
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13 day military and politcal standoff between US and USSR over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba
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The Soviet flag is lowered for the last timme over the Kremlin as Gorbachev resigned as president of Soviet Union and Yeltsin became preisdent of a new independent Russian state
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Last leader of the Communist Party for the Soviet Union
